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Similarity of subtypes is reflexive, transitive, and antisymmetric at the same universe level #1295

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@lowasser lowasser commented Feb 7, 2025

Maybe there's a name for this sort of thing? "Large equivalence relation" or something?

@@ -138,27 +161,39 @@ module _
pr2 (sim-has-same-elements-subtype P Q s) x = backward-implication (s x)
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### The containment relation is antisymmetric
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I did some rearranging to keep symmetry and its properties together, but moved it after this section because I need antisymmetry.

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Maybe there's a name for this sort of thing? "Large equivalence relation" or something?

That certainly sounds like a good concept. I don't believe we have this formalized, but it is a welcome addition. We already have large binary relations, this should build neatly on top of that.

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Wait, actually, we have similarity in large posets. That's what you want

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